Tomorrow is Election Day. I've been considering how an academic library might recognize the day with a Library 2.0 approach. The library is the intellectual center on campus. We can make it relevant to our constituencies in a way that is participatory, collaborative and conversational, using technologies that are a part of our users' lives.

Here are a few ideas.

Set up wiki pages on which the university community can collect links to great resources about the issues of the day.

Offer blog topics on the issues about which the university community can comment. The topics might be posed as questions to elicit opinions.

Create podcasts with tips on election resources from the library's political science bibliographer, get-out-the-vote messages from students, interviews with activists, etc.

Sponsor a post-election question-and-answer chat featuring a member of the political science department.

Maybe next year?